Example sentences of "context of the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then , very much closer to the election and possibly even after the election really seeing what the possibilities are given the economic context of the time . ’ |
| 2 | And in the context of the time , there was a sort of heroism in this . |
| 3 | Umberto Eco 's magisterial novel The Name of the Rose ( 1983 ) , for example , plays on the dialectic between the reader 's curiosity about the medieval world and his/her almost total ignorance of it ( funnelled , as Eco explains in his Reflections on the novel , through the observations of the novice Adso ( Eco 1985 : 33–4 ) ; between the sense that the historical world ( the abbey and the cultural and religious context of the time ) is a world of its own and the sense that it is connected to the world of the reader . |
| 4 | All this for an eighteen-year-old who , just over a year before , had been feared — in the context of the time — unmanageable and a little while before that had been sunk down without trace behind the haberdashery counter in Port Talbot 's Co-operative shop . |
| 5 | For James and the Nazarean Party in Jerusalem , what matters is Jesus 's teaching and his claim to Messiahship in the established context of the time — as rightful king and liberator . |
| 6 | I think if you ha , if you look at Burns in the context of the time in which he lived , he was not an exceptional drinker or an exceptional womanizer , we 're a lot like him |
| 7 | The principles and practice of plan making , and the various ways in which government , both local and central , has intervened in environmental affairs , have always been dependent on the context of the time : political , institutional , social , economic and technological . |
| 8 | The balance between industrial demand , speculation and monetary needs could probably never have been achieved in the inflationary context of the time . |